My First Vacation

We took a family vacation to the beautiful gulf coast.  It was so much fun to see how Hannah Claire loved one of our favorite places in the world.  There were times we thought how crazy we are to bring a 2 month old to the beach but she had fun and so did we.  We had a great time.  Of course no trip of the Miller family is complete without some sort of event.  We checked in on Wednesday and were so impressed with our room.  As we started to set up the pack-n-play and get stuff out so we could go to the beach we adjusted the thermostat since it was extremely warm in our room.  A few minutes later we realized that the room was not cooling at all.  We called and reported it.  Someone came after just a few minutes.  How great right!  Wrong.  He couldn't fix it so we had to wait on someone else.  Over an hour later he finally shows up.  We kept waiting expecting to have to move rooms.  He still couldn't fix it but wanted to try something else.  Still not sure if we were moving rooms or staying we decided to go to the beach and enjoy and worry about this later.  When we got back still no air and no answer about changing rooms.  Shane and I both took cool showers.  Finally we were told that they could not fix it and we were going to get a new room.  A bellman was on his way with our new room keys and a cart to help us move rooms.  We waited for over an hour again and still no bellman.  It is now 9pm and we are starving.  Finally we gave up went and ate dinner and stopped by the front desk when we got back to get our room keys.  At 11pm we began moving rooms.  It was not the ideal start to a vacation, especially with a baby but it all worked out in the end.  Come to find out the next day, there was a problem with the entire a/c unit for the building and had we not reported our unit the entire bldg would have lost a/c.  God does work in mysterious ways.  The rest of the trip went pretty smoothly.

Here are some of the MANY pictures we took:

This was the top of our condo, it was called the Sunset Deck.  It was beautiful...

We copied our friend Rachel with this picture.  She and her husband took a picture like this with their Noah.  It was so cute we had to have one.  Hannah Claire liked it about as much as Noah did.

Picture time with Daddy & Mommy.  Look how tropical & lush, gorgeous!

This is Jason, he works with me (Brandi).  He & Tiffany were at the beach.  Hannah Claire loves to see Jason.  He is so good with her.  I think we know who to call when we need a sitter.

This is our great friend JC.  She and her family arrived on Friday so we got to have dinner before we left to come home.  It was the first time JC has gotten to meet HC.  They hit it off great.

I love this picture.  We were having a nice talk before we went out to dinner.  It just doesn't get any better than that!

Daddy has his fun too.  She is completely a Daddy's girl.  It just makes my heart melt to see the way she looks at him.  Oh, and don't you just love that hat?  I'm not sure how big they make hats for babies but it was huge!!!  The outfit that it came with fits perfect.  Oh well, it worked for pictures.

This was later that night at dinner.  We were at Captain Dave's one of our favorite restaurants!  HC slept through most of dinner.  How can you blame her after a long day of sunning on the beach.

She and Daddy took a break from the sun and got some much need R&R.

This was a picture of HC's first visit to the pool.  She enjoyed it for a few minutes and then went to sleep (a true sign of just how much she loved it!).

This is my favorite family picture so far!  We are so blessed to have such a wonderful baby!!!

Here is her first trip down to the beach.  Don't you just love her umbrella.  Since you can't put sunscreen on 2 month olds we ordered this umbrella.  It hooks onto the stroller and adjusts to block the sun.  It is suppose to have SPF of 50+.  I questioned if I was getting suckered in by those things you think "I have to have that" and then never use, but we loved it!  It kept HC covered where her carseat cover didn't cover.  If  you are a new mom or know of one I highly recommend this.  Their website is www.shadybaby.com

My first time to put my feet in the sand.  Not so sure about it.

Daddy getting the sand off of me once we got back to our room.  Thanks to Cile we know the trick to getting sand off of your skin, baby powder.  It works great.  HC enjoyed it and playing with Daddy.